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@GQtdauto, Thanks for your help, advice, support doing this. It's your fault that I did this you know.
All good mate, enjoyed the "chat" and now to go for drive!
You could have bought Clearview for your GU but it's a doable diy if your handy enough and they look great but best of all their the best mirrors on the market I reckon .
Think we both should be thanking Josh and Fjj45 for the idea ( hope I got that right ) .
That looks great. I reckon you'd be replacing the foam fairly often though?
I would suggest to wrap the plastic & foam combo with a high quality vinyl wrap to keep it looking its best for years to come.
Looks ok Macca , yes I noticed a difference with the left as well , if your making the bracket from scratch you can copy most things from the right one except the pivot hole for tang that sits on the spring .
The real test is driving with them.
Visibility was increased unbelievably. The drivers side showed cars with no blind spots, but motor cycles being shorter disappeared, the bottom mirror was all the way "out" so I'll have to watch that.
The passenger side is a bit trickier as the bottom mirror is so clear I had to be careful to check the top mirror (a little obscured by the wind visor that is badly scratched) before moving left after passing someone.
They didn't seem to block the view as much as I had anticipated, so was all good there.
Vibration was evident but not too bad, on rough surfaces and corrugations its going to be a problem I'm thinking. Just have to wait and see.
A smart move will be to fit fender washers to the mount points even a one piece plate on the bottom two mount screws sooner rather than later.
Electrics worked good, heater is slow if the mirror is covered in early morning dew, about 3 minutes to really be effective. Mirror range was perfect and indicators even though a bit bling actually do a good job. Used the passenger side one to pull in left after passing, once the vehicle was in the indicator I was about 20 meters in front of them.
Noise, heard no wind noise at all.
Yes it is a mod well worth doing, a vast improvement over the ones on there before.
Only real down side is extra width when parking and the passenger side is higher that a parked car when reversing into a parking space. Using the lower mirror for parking takes some practice, that or lower the main mirror for that purpose.
Would I do it again? Yes definitely.